RARA-AVIS: Ellroy's "Contino"

Bill Hagen (billha@ionet.net)
Mon, 4 May 1998 22:56:11 -0500 (CDT) It's after Mayday and is anyone doing _Hollywood Nocturnes_? Wife snagged
the book first and wouldn't let me at it till she finished, so I've only
read through the long, long "Dick Contino's Blues."

My first reaction was whatthehell?

Second, reaction: ok, a series of riffs, a jam of different instrumental
styles. But too long for what he's doing! Going through a black humor
phase, maybe: reading Ishmael Reed (_Mumbo Jumbo_ ), trying to write like
Thomas Pynchon. Some of it ok, but much of it very thin stream of
consciousness stuff. Goes through your system fast. Written fast, I'd
guess. And this is 1/3rd of the book!

A little negativity to kick things off.

Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>

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